#Pakistan: US Threats Prove Afridi's Crime.

Islamabad—US reaction on the conviction of Dr. Shakil Afridi is evidence enough to prove him an American agent, a think tank said Saturday. The convicted medical practitioner should also be tried for launching a fake vaccination campaign and shattering trust of masses which are already against vaccinations, it said.

Dr. Shakil Afridi is an American intelligence operator and any leniency will encourage other spies working in Pakistan to destabilise the country, said Dr. Murtaza Mughal, President PEW. He said that American threats are interference in internal matters of Pakistan which should be rejected. Afridi should be shifted to some undisclosed destination to ensure his security, said Dr. Murtaza Mughal.

He said that top US officials should stop telling Pakistan what is in there interest. Similarly our embassy in Washington should act in Pakistan’s interest and stop supporting US interests.

 Any mercy towards the traitor will not only encourage US spies but also discourage patriots, warned Dr. Mughal.

Those questioning the trial should know that the political administration in tribal areas have powers to try any resident under the FCR. The convict is not ill; he is pretending to be ill to get special facilities in the Peshawar Central Prison. Why do all  criminals get sick just after they are in trouble, he questioned.

US can take relations to a point of no return for the safety of their undercover agent who has done everything for money. However, Islamabad seems reluctant to ask America to release an innocent lady like Dr. Aafia Siddiqi convicted for 86 years.

http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=157400

#Afghanistan #Iraq:Bush Found Guilty Of War Crimes

By Yvonne Ridley

May 11, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -- Kuala Lumpur -- IT’S OFFICIAL - George W Bush is a war criminal.

In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were today (Friday) found guilty of war crimes.

Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia.

The trial held in Kuala Lumpur heard harrowing witness accounts from victims of torture who suffered at the hands of US soldiers and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.

They included testimony from British man Moazzam Begg, an ex-Guantanamo detainee and Iraqi woman Jameelah Abbas Hameedi who was tortured in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison.

At the end of the week-long hearing, the five-panel tribunal unanimously delivered guilty verdicts against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their key legal advisors who were all convicted as war criminals for torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.

Full transcripts of the charges, witness statements and other relevant material will now be sent to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council.

The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission is also asking that the names of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Yoo, Bybee, Addington and Haynes be entered and included in the Commission’s Register of War Criminals for public record.

The tribunal is the initiative of Malaysia's retired Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who staunchly opposed the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.

He sat through the entire hearing as it took personal statements and testimonies of three witnesses namely Abbas Abid, Moazzam Begg and Jameelah Hameedi. The tribunal also heard two other Statutory Declarations of Iraqi citizen Ali Shalal and Rahul Ahmed, another British citizen.

After the guilty verdict reached by five senior judges was delivered, Mahathir Mohamad said: “Powerful countries are getting away with murder.”

War crimes expert and lawyer Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law in America, was part of the prosecution team.

After the case he said: “This is the first conviction of these people anywhere in the world.”

While the hearing is regarded by some as being purely symbolic, human rights activist Boyle said he was hopeful that Bush and Co could soon find themselves facing similar trials elsewhere in the world.

“We tried three times to get Bush in Canada but were thwarted by the Canadian Government, then we scared Bush out of going to Switzerland. The Spanish attempt failed because of the government there and the same happened in Germany.”

Boyle then referenced the Nuremberg Charter which was used as the format for the tribunal when asked about the credibility of the initiative in Malaysia. He quoted: “Leaders, organizers, instigators and accomplices participating in the formulation or execution of a common plan or conspiracy to commit war crimes are responsible for all acts performed by any person in execution of such a plan.”

The US is subject to customary international law and to the Principles of the Nuremberg Charter said Boyle who also believes the week-long trial was “almost certainly” being monitored closely by both Pentagon and White House officials.

Professor Gurdial Singh Nijar, who headed the prosecution said: “The tribunal was very careful to adhere scrupulously to the regulations drawn up by the Nuremberg courts and the International Criminal Courts”.

He added that he was optimistic the tribunal would be followed up elsewhere in the world where “countries have a duty to try war criminals” and he cited the case of the former Chilean dictator Augustine Pinochet who was arrested in Britain to be extradited to Spain on charges of war crimes.

“Pinochet was only eight years out of his presidency when that happened.”

The Pinochet case was the first time that several European judges applied the principle of universal jurisdiction, declaring themselves competent to judge crimes committed by former heads of state, despite local amnesty laws.

Throughout the week the tribunal was packed with legal experts and law students as witnesses gave testimony and then cross examination by the defence led by lawyer Jason Kay Kit Leon.

The court heard how
· Abbas Abid, a 48-year-old engineer from Fallujah in Iraq had his fingernails removed by pliers.
· Ali Shalal was attached with bare electrical wires and electrocuted and hung from a wall.
· Moazzam Begg was beaten, hooded and put in solitary confinement.
· Jameelah was stripped and humiliated, and was used as a human shield whilst being transported by helicopter.

The witnesses also detailed how they have residual injuries till today.

Moazzam Begg, now working as a director for the London-based human rights group Cageprisoners said he was delighted with the verdict, but added: “When people talk about Nuremberg you have to remember those tried were all prosecuted after the war.

“Right now Guantanamo is still open, people are still being held there and are still being tortured there.”

In response to questions about the difference between the Bush and Obama Administrations, he added: “If President Bush was the President of extra-judicial torture then US President Barak Obama is the President of extra judicial killing through drone strikes. Our work has only just begun.”

The prosecution case rested on proving how the decision-makers at the highest level President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld, aided and abetted by the lawyers and the other commanders and CIA officials – all acted in concert. Torture was systematically applied and became an accepted norm.

According to the prosecution, the testimony of all the witnesses exposed a sustained perpetration of brutal, barbaric, cruel and dehumanising course of conduct against them.
These acts of crimes were applied cumulatively to inflict the worst possible pain and suffering, said lawyers.

The president of the tribunal Tan Sri Dato Lamin bin Haji Mohd Yunus Lamin, found that the prosecution had established beyond a “reasonable doubt that the accused persons, former President George Bush and his co-conspirators engaged in a web of instructions, memos, directives, legal advice and action that established a common plan and purpose, joint enterprise and/or conspiracy to commit the crimes of Torture and War Crimes, including and not limited to a common plan and purpose to commit the following crimes in relation to the “War on Terror” and the wars launched by the U.S. and others in Afghanistan and Iraq.”

President Lamin told a packed courtroom: “As a tribunal of conscience, the Tribunal is fully aware that its verdict is merely declaratory in nature. The tribunal has no power of enforcement, no power to impose any custodial sentence on any one or more of the 8 convicted persons. What we can do, under Article 31 of Chapter VI of Part 2 of the Charter is to recommend to the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission to submit this finding of conviction by the Tribunal, together with a record of these proceedings, to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council.

“The Tribunal also recommends to the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission that the names of all the 8 convicted persons be entered and included in the Commission’s Register of War Criminals and be publicised accordingly.

“The Tribunal recommends to the War Crimes Commission to give the widest international publicity to this conviction and grant of reparations, as these are universal crimes for which there is a responsibility upon nations to institute prosecutions if any of these Accused persons may enter their jurisdictions”.
British journalist Yvonne Ridley is also a patron of Cageprisoners

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31297.htm

#Afghan War Diary 2004 - 2010 . Wikileaks.

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Category:United_States

http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010

Some Wikileaks links to articles have been removed .

#Vietnam: The Pentagon Papers (Archives)

http://www.archives.gov/research/pentagon-papers/

 

 

War victims:  A father holds the body of his child as South Vietnamese Army Rangers look down from their armoured vehicle on March 19, 1964 and (right) Lt Col George Eyster of Florida is placed on a stretcher after being shot by a Vietcong sniper at Trung Lap, South Vietnam on January 16, 1966

#Afghanistan War Logs:Video- Julian Assange On The War In Afghanistan.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2010/jul/25/julian-assange-wikileaks-interview-warlogs

Fling: WikiLeaks founder faced charges of rape and sexual molestation, but they were withdrawn and then put in place AGAIN!

 

#USA Threatens #Pakistan - Drop IRAN Pipeline Deal

The truth emerges.  The USA want the Israeli TAPI gas pipline and NOT the Pakistan - Iran gas pipeline. Nothing to do with IRAN being a nuclear threat at all.

By Tom Wright

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has threatened Pakistan with sanctions if the country continues with plans to build a natural gas pipeline to Iran.

Win McNamee/Getty Images

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton threatened Pakistan with sanctions if the country continued with its plan to build natural gas pipeline to Iran.

The U.S. is moving to squeeze Iran financially in a bid to force it to drop its nuclear program. But Pakistan has been unwilling to line up behind the U.S., saying it needs Iran, a neighbor, to help it meet a massive energy shortage.

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Mrs. Clinton told a  U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee Wednesday that sanctions could be triggered if Islamabad presses ahead. As Pakistan’s economy already is in dire straits, the sanctions could be “particularly damaging” and “further undermine their economic status,” Mrs. Clinton said.

Pakistan’s top bureaucrat in the Petroleum and Natural Resources Ministry, Muhammad Ejaz Chaudhry, said the pipeline was crucial for Pakistan’s energy security – the longstanding Pakistan position. But he added that Pakistan was “committed not to create any problems.” A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry was not immediately available to comment.

“Pakistan has announced that the multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline deal with Iran is still on, despite the US pressure,” Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency said in a report Thursday. Tehran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

The pressure on Pakistan comes as the U.S. is calling on India, China and Turkey to reduce their imports of Iranian crude oil. Mrs. Clinton said earlier this week the U.S. was having “very intense and very blunt” conversations with the three countries on the issue.

The U.S. also has been disrupting financial networks that Tehran relies on to get foreign currency for its oil sales.

The pressure appears to be having some success. The European Union agreed in January to ban Iranian oil imports from July 1. India has stood firm in public, saying it needs Iranian oil. But Indian news reports say the country has quietly been seeking increased oil supplies from Saudi Arabia and Iraq in a bid to wean itself off Iranian supply.

The threat to Pakistan comes amid very poor relations between Islamabad and Washington. The two nations are ostensibly allies in the war against the Taliban. But the U.S. blames Pakistan for continuing to support some elements of the Taliban, a charge Pakistan denies. Military and civilian officials in Pakistan were vexed by the U.S. decision in 2005 to enhance civilian nuclear cooperation with India, while denying a similar deal to them.

Pakistan is building civilian nuclear reactors with China’s help but says it needs to do more to ensure its energy security.

Work on the Pakistan-Iran pipeline, which is to link Iran’s South Pars gas field with Pakistan’s Baluchistan and Sindh provinces,  has not yet begun. An earlier plan to extend the pipeline through to India, at a total cost of $7 billion, was dropped after New Delhi pulled out under pressure from the U.S.

The current project is valued at $1.5 billion and is scheduled for completion by 2014, Mr. Chaudhry said. Once operations begin, Iran has committed to supply 750 million cubic feet of gas per day for 25 years.

Pakistan relies on gas for half its energy needs but domestic supplies are declining, forcing the country to rely on imports. The gas shortages have contributed to an energy shortfall which means most parts of the country suffer lengthy blackouts on a daily basis.

You can follow Tom and India Real Time on Twitter @TomWrightAsia and @indiarealtime.


http://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/03/01/u-s-threatens-pakistan-drop-iran-pipeline/

#USA Wants #Israel TAPI GAS PIPELINE IN PLACE BY 2014 (22 Feb 2012)

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AFGHANISTAN ANGER - US WANTS ISRAEL TAPI GAS PIPELINE IN PLACE BY 2014 (22_Feb_2012)

Pipelinestan:
T - Turkmenistan,
A - Afghanistan,
P - Pakistan,
I - India
signed TAPI gas pipeline deal owned by the Israeli company of Tel Aviv (MERHAV Company).

The TAPI agreement was signed in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, 11 December 2010 with Israel company MERHAV [Supported by US military forces - 1,780 US troops dead + 404 UK troops dead to date - yet the natural gas pipeline is of no benefit to the US or UK people... US & UK people are misled to believe there is a purported "War On Terror"]

Turkmenistan - Afghanistan - Pakistan - India ("TAPI") natural gas pipeline connection - from the Tukmenistan natural gasfields to India...

T - TURKMEN President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov
A - AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai
P - PAKISTAN President Asif Ali Zardari
I - INDIAN energy minister Murli Deora

signed the TAPI agreement in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, 11 December 2010 with ISRAEL company MERHAV [Supported by US military forces]

404 UK soldiers KILLED to date - natural born AFGHANIS see themselves as protecting their home country from "foreign aggressive invaders - who want to lay a natural gas pipeline through their country without any form of consultation or dialogue with the people of their own sovereign jurisdiction".

[http://islamic-intelligence.blogspot.com/2010/12/pipelinestan-israelis-puppets-­­in-india.html]

DRUGS was the purported "reason" [read the REAL EXCUSE] given by one ACL BLAIR for intervention in AFGHANISTAN - not unlike the Weapons of Mass Destruction ("WMD") as the "reason" for intervention in IRAQ. It was all subsequently found to be ONE BIG LIE...

Over ONE MILLION men, women and children now dead...
How many US, UK & EU soldiers also dead...?
How many victims of the symptoms of Depleted Uranium ("DU") and the adverse effects of Radiation Sickness and the horrific congenital abnormalities & deformities in their babies...

2014 is the date of completion of the TAPI natural gas pipeline
Surprise, surprise, 2014 is ALSO the date of withdrawal of US/UK troops from AFGHANISTAN...
[Now what a co-incidence...]

Most US/UK/EU citizens are in COMPLETE ignorance of the REAL reason for deaths of US/UK/EU personnel in AFGHANISTAN...

UK citizens are treated like complete fools... to be treated like MUSHROOMS...
Kept in the DARK and fed total bullshit...(?)

TAPI : The Afghan Connection - The REAL REASON For US CONTROL

Uploaded by youxsearch on 17 Feb 2012

TAPI - the AFGHANISTAN connection - the REAL REASON for US CONTROL

Courtesy: RT

Pipelinestan:
T - Turkmenistan,
A - Afghanistan,
P - Pakistan,
I - India signed TAPI gas pipeline deal owned by the Israelis of Tel Aviv (MEHRAV Company)

Turkmenistan - Afghanistan - Pakistan - India ("TAPI") natural gas pipeline connection - from the Tukmenistan natural gasfields to India...

T - TURKMEN President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov
A - AFGHAN President Hamid Karzai
P - PAKISTAN President Asif Ali Zardari
I - INDIAN energy minister Murli Deora

signed the TAPI agreement in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, 11 December 2010 with Israel company MEHRAV [Supported by US military forces]

398 UK soldiers KILLED to date - natural born Afghanis see themselves as protecting their home country from "foreign aggressive invaders - who want to lay a gas pipeline through their country without any form of consultation or dialogue with the people of the sovereign jurisdiction".

[http://islamic-intelligence.blogspot.com/2010/12/pipelinestan-israelis-puppets-­in-india.html]

DRUGS was the purported "reason" [read the REAL EXCUSE] given by one ACL BLAIR for intervention in AFGHANISTAN - not unlike the Weaponsof Mass Destrruction as the "reason" for intervention in IRAQ. It was all subsequently found to be ONE BIG LIE...

Over ONE MILLION men, women and children now dead...
How many US, UK & EU soldiers also dead...?
How many victims of the symptoms of Depleted Uranium ("DU") and the adverse effects of Radiation Sickness and the horrific congentital abnormalities & deformities in their babies...